…1/13-09: you can replace color

26º in ABQ; 68% humidity at 6A…battled my emotional demons this past weekend; GAQ; mold in Roswell schools making students sick; auction bid deadline for Eclipse Aviation, no offers made; more bathrooms at the new ‘Pit’; it will cost $3 million to merge two NM colleges; big airplane went over The Beach during the early AM; computerized heating system failed to work at Rio Rancho schools; MGR arrested for doubling the amount of his paycheck; NM police cannot search a child’s room without the youngster’s position; two prescribed burns starting today; US Census Bureau needs workers in NM; police bust underage sex scheme in Clovis; man surrendered after barricading himself in NE Duke City home; new sign for Olde Towne Econo Lodge; FBI investigating Shiprock shooting on FED Indian land; increase tax collection, not increased taxes; two ABQ S Valley schools have constantly performed poorly, principals need to make restructuring changes, or face transfer;

I’m the best…of the worst; no fan, closed door means extreme heat; is Jenny here?; saw woman walking a Corgi across the campus; separate walk to PICN with new forms; PEDS OR was completely booked today; finished Rounds by 9A; Code Purple at 6:30A, and all day; the ‘smoking ill’;

temps from – 10s to 70s; snow taxing city & state budgets; OH flurries, Cleveland & Boston snow; JAX rain; blizzards across the N Plains & Chicago; lots of lake effect snow, making money by plowing it; snow amounts: 2008 vs. 2007; 92 vs. 31 in Erie: 36 vs. 18 in Chicago; MN under ice & snow; 2008 was one of the coldest years on record; S CA record highs from Santa Ana winds; Denver saw six more inches of snow; deepest freeze so far; 27 vehicle pileup on NE interstate, near Omaha;

the view from atop the Washington Monument; CO driver gets stuck on snowplow, dragged for ½ mile; Phoenix thief used camera on stolen cell phone; NYC residents get tax bills that are $5, or less, to be paid in two installments; Hillary in the ‘hot seat’: SECY of State: the most important person in the free world; bush, and his forty-seventh press conference; will the Volt be ready by 2010?; Obama faces his first possible veto for releasing $350 billion bailout; Alcoa predicts profit loss; no body at FL plane crash scene, E-mail to friend said he tried to commit suicide; Heath won the Golden Globe; shut down GITMO by 2010, ‘a sad chapter in American history’; the ‘nightmare dream’: for sale, for rent, foreclosed; home prices have plunged from over $300K to less than $200K; sleep away the common cold; the return of the FORD Taurus; Burris will be sworn in next week as Junior IL SEN; Labradoodle vs. the Portuguese Water Dog; too many items have high volumes; finally, a Celtics victory!; Bernanke & the bank bailouts; taxes on online sales?; INDY Colts coach resigns, after only two years in that position; STD still on the rise; mother & four children killed in their OK home; Bush accused of ‘abusing the office’; CA father sold his daughter for marriage, in exchange for cash, alcohol & meat; Treasury SECY nominee has failed to pay $34K in taxes for four years, while working at the IMF…these are seen as ‘honest mistakes’; two year old girl abducted from gas station; 42 miles from Kittanning to Pittsburgh, PA; ‘smart power’; terror drill in DC: war games, mock battles, coordinated attacks on several US cities [should be those where major roads meet, such as INDY, Denver & Orlando]; $2 trillion has been lost by retirees from recent 401(k) or IRA losses: many do not want to hire the elderly; US deficit at $485.2 billion; Cessna will layoff 2K workers; IL GOV will preside over his own impeachment trial; Playoff Weekend One ended with the Cardinals, the Ravens, the Eagles & the Steelers as winners…three birds, two intrastate teams; nearing the end of the era of the large home…size does matter!; Louisiana man accused of threatening to kill PRES Bush, and blowing up the White House; DOW ended down;

UK prisoner smuggled drugs into jail via toy helicopter; Israeli bombing the city of Gaza; first loss by SONY since 1995; foreign markets falling; oil prices are rising; $100K job: caretaker at Great Barrier Reef; Russia resumes sending gas to European nations; Israel has stormed Gaza City; using YouTube to ‘televise’ the Middle East conflict;